Felicia Rutberg is a product strategy and analytics manager at Snap, previously she was a product data scientist at Spotify. She started her career as a management consultant at Accenture. She studied mathematics and cognitive psychology at the Vanderbilt University. Felicia reached out to me on Linkedin because she wanted to share how she became a data scientist while having ADHD. Today we’ll talk about product analytics at Spotify and Snap, her career journey, and ADHD. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science.
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Highlights:
(00:01:29) from management consulting to data science
(00:12:20) financial data analyst at Spotify
(00:20:06) how to do internal job transition
(00:25:57) product data scientist at Spotify in the econometrics team
(00:29:33) how she became more vocal on the creative process
(00:33:48) how to get the last 1% of the work done
(00:38:53) how to ensure the quality of the analysis
(00:50:19) propensity score matching at Spotify
(00:57:09) how to validate causal inference outcomes
(01:00:51) lessons from working with economists
(01:19:16) from Spotify to Snap
(01:27:35) salary negotiation
(01:34:02) day-to-day at Snap
(01:38:33) Spotify vs Snap
(01:44:35) lessons from management consulting that helped her data science journey
(01:47:37) ADHD and self-compassion
(02:02:52) the books she recommended
(02:08:26) her future career
